This has been a focus of the process, but this is a note to selves to hit this hard: something small can trigger a much larger story.
The scrap piece of metal rusting on a beach has a much more complex story – ore, smelted, fabricated to become steel, recycled, turned into something else, lost at sea, washed ashore, rusting more, ends up in Nicky’s model, Ends up being filmed, Ends up giving somebody tetanus.
Wood piling remnants tell a story of how the port came to be and its expedient development. Remnants are left behind from these thriving industries as the port constantly reinvents itself.
The small material discovery we make on site can have so many implications behind it. And then it ends up in our models and videos. And it could end up driving a design. It is a tangible thread to follow from discovery to proposal.